On 25/06/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I have been thinking a little bit as well about a model with full blown keys (like the Google API) -- the point could be that for free software, we can give out free keys and support those users at our own expense. But for proprietary software, we can charge money for the keys.
Could web reusers use the same interface (with appropriate caching)? Would they be able to get free keys if their sites were free?
(I have no plans to do anything along these lines, but I'd imagine that sooner or later a WWW::Wikipedia::API will pop up on the CPAN...)